Jekyll And Hyde chapter 1, 2, 3 Flashcards
Describing London’s streets- alliteration and simile
“The Street shone […] like a fire in a forest.”
Adjectives describing the door
“The door was blistered and distained.”
Adjectives about the building (2)- a metaphor for evil in people
“A certain sinister block of building thrust forward.”
“Marks of PROLONGED and SORDID negligence”
Simile about streets- showing lack of Godliness
“All as empty as a church.”
Verbs describing what Hyde had done to the girl
“The little man who was STUMPING.”
“The man TRAMPLED calmly.”
- juxtaposition
Evil word to describe how bad the trampling of the girl was
“It was hellish to see.”
Simile describing Hyde
“It was like some damned Juggernaut.”
Repetition and simile of Hyde linked to evil
“Like Satan.”
Repetition of shellfish imagery and Satan imagery
“Damnable man.”
Utterson describing Jekyll as a moral man (idiom)- repetition of letter ‘p’
“Very pink of proprieties.”
repetition of word said by Enfield suggesting that he is finding it difficult to describe Hyde
“no face”
metaphor about london which creates a gothic atmosphere
“the low growl of London all around.”
hyde- sybilance - he is the embodiment of evil (2)
- “Mr Hyde shrank back with a hissing intake of the breath”
- “the other snarled aloud into a savage laugh.”
alliteration showing that Hyde is not a human
“hardly human”
list of how utterson felt about seeing hyde
“disgust, loathing, fear”
